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Millions of hajj pilgrims began heading back to Mecca for final prayers on Tuesday as the world’s largest annual gathering of Muslims wound down without incident despite the logistical challenges and escalating regional tensions, Middle EastMonitor reports. Senior officials told Reuters there had been no major incidents and the logistical,...

A protest that was planned over metal detectors installed at a contested Jerusalem shrine turned violent on Friday, which spread clashes between Israeli troops using live rounds, rubber bullets, and beatings and Palestinians that were using projectiles, according to The Associated Press. The confrontations in Jerusalem which eventually led to the...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday vowed to take international legal action against Saudi Arabia's rulers over the crush of Muslim pilgrims at this year's hajj, which killed at least 769 people, including 136 Iranians. The pilgrims suffocated or were trampled to death Thursday when two massive crowds converged on a narrow street, in the worst disaster...

It is a matter of immense prestige for the Saudi royal family that it hosts the Hajj. Saudi kings have proudly adopted the title of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. But the honour carries a heavy responsibility too. The Saudis feel they have lived up to this by spending billions on expanding Mecca and Medina and improving the transport and...

As the body count from the horrific Hajj stampede reached 719, the backlash started. Within hours, Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran had laid the blame for the deaths squarely on the heads of the House of Saud. Saudi officials, by contrast, claimed "some pilgrims who didn't follow the guidelines issued" may have been responsible for the sudden...

Saudi Arabia has deployed 100,000 security personnel to oversee the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage that begins on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry spokesman said, underscoring both the massive arrangements needed to secure one of the largest pilgrimages in the world and the multitude of threats the hajj faces. “We always concentrate on hajj...

(CNN)Saudi Arabia's King has issued a decree halting all Saudi Binladin Group construction projects in the kingdom until a full investigation of last week's deadly crane collapse at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, a report on state-run Saudi Arabian radio said Tuesday. On Friday, a construction crane crashed through the roof of the Grand Mosque in...

RIYADH - At least 107 people were killed when a crane toppled over at Mecca's Grand Mosque on Friday, Saudi Arabia's Civil Defence authority said, less than two weeks before Muslim's annual haj pilgrimage. At least 238 people were wounded, Saudi Arabia's Civil Defence body said. "All those who were wounded and the dead...

RIYADH: At least 87 people were killed when a crane crashed in Mecca's Grand Mosque on Friday, Saudi Arabia's civil defence authority said, in an accident that came just weeks before Islam's annual haj pilgrimage. The civil defence said on its Twitter account...

This past week, Muslims around the world celebrated the festival of Eid al-Adha, which marks the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca, a religious duty for all Muslims. AroundSouth Asia and the Middle East, the festival is celebrated by the sacrifice of an animal to commemorate the ProphetAbraham's willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God's...

The world's Muslims on Sunday marked the Eid al-Adha feast which caps the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, with the festival overshadowed by deadly attacks in Africa and Central Asia. This year the feast comes after the turmoil of the 'Arab Spring,' the pro-democracy protests that swept the Arab world and led to the ouster of the autocratic leaders of...

NEW DELHI: Aseemanand, the hardline Hindutva swami, has confessed to his involvement in the terror attack on Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid, while confirming that bomb attacks on the mosques in Malegaon (in 2006 and 2008) as well as the Samjhauta Express were carried out by Hindu radicals and he knew about it. What reportedly led to the confession: the...

Riyadh: A fatwa (religious ruling) issued by Shaikh Adel Al Kalbani, a former imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, in which he claimed that Islam does not forbid singing and music has split Saudi scholars, Islamic thinkers and secularists. "There is no clear-cut religious ruling that says singing and music are not permissible in Islam," Al...

MECCA - Stoning the devil and circling the MeccaGrand Mosque's kaaba, two million pilgrims began the final rituals of the hajj on Saturday ahead of a massive exodus from Islam's holiest city. Tens of thousands of the faithful circled the black cubic kaaba at the heart of the mosque in Mecca while many more continued the three-stage ritual of...

Millions of Muslims from around the world have gathered in the Saudi city of Mecca in anticipation of the start of Hajj - the annual Muslim pilgrimage that re-enacts the actions of the Prophet Muhammad 1,377 years ago. Taking part in the pilgrimage at least once in one's lifetime is a major obligation for all able-bodied Muslims of...